All Loungers articles – Page 16
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Analysis & Insight
The importance of being innovative and adding value
So what type of foodservice proposition would you develop? This is a question I get asked a couple of times a year and is not, always that easy to answer (the nature of the questioner can have a bearing)
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News
Bistrot Pierre strengthens pipeline
Bistrot Pierre has further strengthened its openings pipeline, after securing a site in Mere Green, West Midlands
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NewsLoungers appoints new FD
Loungers has appointed Chris Guy, currently strategic finance director at the Casual Dining Group, as its new finance director
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News
Loungers in post-Brexit “soul-searching” over pipeline
Loungers co-founder and Cosy Club managing director Jake Bishop has told MCA landlords are already taking a more pro-active approach to investing in new launches as a result of Brexit.
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News
Cosy Club scope “limitless”
Jake Bishop, managing director of Cosy Club, has told MCA the ultimate scope for the brand is “limitless” and said his goal is to follow in the footsteps of the currently 70-strong Lounge sister brand but with a clearly defined separate identity.
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News
Dodd to become MD of Fuller’s Beer Company
Fuller’s has appointed Simon Dodd to the position of managing director of its Beer Company
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Dodd steps down from Fuller’s
Simon Dodd has stepped down as operations director of Fuller’s Premium City division after a year and a half with the company
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Analysis & Insight
The song remains the same
Slowing like-for-like sales, a heated property market, the continuing impact of the NLW and the growing importance/influence of delivery meant the UK’s eating and drinking-out sector was already facing a challenging period before the uncertainty caused by the EU referendum decision
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NewsBishop to become Cosy Club MD
Loungers has appointed operations director Jake Bishop as managing director of its Cosy Club brand
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NewsCosta launches in-store ‘selfie zones’
Customers at Costa are being encouraged to pout for the camera with the launch of new ‘selfie zones’ in selected stores
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OpinionReady to get the Party started
Boston Tea Party, the Bristol-based café and restaurant brand, is arguably the south-west’s best-kept secret when its comes to the wider eating-out market, but managing director Sam Roberts tells Mark Wingett that may not be the case for much longer
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News
Loungers to open three sites this month
Loungers has announced it will open three new sites this month, taking its tally of new openings so far in 2016 to seven and its total estate to 82.
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NewsThe Breakfast Club tops 2016 Growth Tracker
The Breakfast Club has topped the list of the UK’s eating and drinking-out market’s fastest-growing companies
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NewsCDG’s Richards named Retailers’ Retailer
Steve Richards, the driving force behind development and growth of the Casual Dining Group, has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market
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NewsLoungers still on track to post FY turnover of c£78m
Loungers remains broadly on track to post turnover of c£78m in its current financial year, up from £48m in the year to 26 April 2015
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Analysis & Insight
Rise to challenge of site prices
Almost universally, operators hold the view that increasing property costs are presenting an enormous challenge to the restaurant and licensed property sectors in the UK. The question is, are the costs sustainable, do they present a real danger to the sector, and if so, where?
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NewsLoungers introduces NLW early
Loungers has opted to introduce the National Living Wage early to all its employees regardless of age,
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Analysis & InsightWho will blink first?
It felt like the majority of the sector was running to a standstill last year as it continued to wait to fully reap the rewards of the hard yards put in post downturn. The sobering thought is that it looks like the industry will have to provide more of the same over the next 12-18 months to stay ahead
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Analysis & InsightCulture clubs
Each company has a unique way of instilling company values, but as the war on talent is set to intensify over the next 12 months the strength of a company’s culture/ethos is set to increasingly define the long-term winners and losers across the sector
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NewsRetailers’ Retailer of the Year Awards 2016 finalists announced
The finalists for next year’s Retailers’ Retailer of the Year Awards (RROTY) have been revealed, with the Bridgepoint-backed Azzurri Group leading the list of nominees, closely followed by Wagamama